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title: Blogging Challenges? Ideas for Tough Blogging Times
description: Blogging Challenges? Ideas for Tough Blogging Times
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# [Blogging Challenges? Ideas for Tough Blogging Times](https://www.brainzooming.com/blog/blogging-challenges-ideas-for-tough-blogging-times)

 Written by [Mike Brown](https://www.brainzooming.com/blog/author/mike-brown) | Jan 20, 2011 10:50:02 AM

**<https://www.brainzooming.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/110120WritingBlocked-3.jpg>Blogging challenges** change over time. Friday night into Saturday morning used to be my blogging marathon time while in the corporate world. [Blogging was my fun creative outlet](https://www.brainzooming.com/?p=4422), and I knew there wouldn’t be time during the week to write. What a motivator! Now, knowing a Thursday post can get written Wednesday afternoon, the motivation to stay up until 3 a.m. writing isn’t there, presenting a challenge to Friday night blogging now.

**When blogging, every idea has to get past the “Do I care enough about this to write 300 words on it” filter. **Sometimes, the filter seems pretty high. That’s when it becomes a challenge to write and you have to adjust the settings.

Sometimes **adjusting the filter** means** throwing out every idea you’re struggling with** (because they all seem like crap) and starting over.** Other times**, it may take **hanging on to a crap idea, forcing yourself to write** to some level of completion, then stepping back to see what you have.

Some people get around writing challenges completely by stealing content. Just now a pingback appeared on a [social media productivity](https://www.brainzooming.com/../../../../?p=5569) blog post from December. A real estate person in Dallas copied it word-for-word, running it as one of the first 6 posts on her blog. Pathetic. But at least she kept all the links to the post in place. Not all plagiarizers do that.

**Copying isn't creating** though. You have to be willing to **push away from the side of the intellectual capital pool & shape your own ideas.**

Scared you’ll need a writer’s lifeline though when going into the deep water? One lifeline **somebody mentioned** recently is that **blog posts should only be 80% complete so they’ll generate more comments**. Wow, if 80% done is the standard, I might have enough potential posts in my blogging sketchbook right now for the rest of the year!

**Another variation** on the settling for 80% mantra is **writing 140 characters instead of 140 words**, then **generating enough related tweets to build to 140 words**. With a good run, you may get to 280 words.

**Need evidence this idea works?**

**HELLO! How do you think this blog post started life?**

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